LIMITS NOT CLEAR
VICHY POLICY
COLLABORATION WITH NAZIS
RUGBY, May 14.
When questioned in the House of Commons regarding French policy, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, referred to the agreement of May 5 in which economic concessions by Germany were announced, and commented:
"Whatever concessions Admiral Darlan may have agreed to, I find it hard to believe that the French people, helpless though they may be to prevent systematic German spoliation of their resources, will be so false to their noble traditions as to work actively and of their own free will for the German cause, and thus prolong the period of their own sufferings and postpone the day of their own liberation.
"The policy which has been adopted and declared by France is collaboration with Germany within certain limits which have not. so far as I am aware, been clearly denned.
"No official announcement has been made regarding what may have been conceded by France in return for the so-called concessions, but the agreement is described in Vichy as a new step along the path of collaboration." —
8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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